One of the main reasons we accumulate clutter is because all the stuff we have around the house that just naturally accumulates. Sometimes it’s because you need it for something and can’t throw it away yet. Maybe it’s just in that corner of the house you don’t really look at but has the effect of dragging the rest of the room’s cleanliness down with it.
There are a few weekly upkeep things you can do that will really help keep everything together and enhance the general cleanliness level overall. Let’s start with the fridge. Do a quick clean out of your fridge once a week. The day before trash week, get rid of any to old leftovers, expired food, and then quickly wipe off the shelves. This keeps the fridge from accumulating that gross build up that you get in fridges. Meaning when you finally get around to deep cleaning your fridge you don’t have to go through the process of being slowly grossed out by the condition that your food has been kept in. Don’t let moldy leftovers take over shelf space and your mind.
There’s also the thing where you have important papers and invitations and other such visual noise, cluttering up your end tables. Scan it. Put it through the scanner on your computer, there are apps that will turn pictures into PDF files. You have the technology to not have physical paper scattered around your house.
Something you can also do is to keep clothes from building up until your designated laundry day. One of my biggest problems keeping my space clean is just avoiding the inevitable pile-up of clothes that spills onto the floor, making the room look like GARBAGE. So try tossing a load in mid-week or before you go off to work and when you get back toss it into the dryer. I don’t know how you are about folding and putting away clothes, so I can’t help you with that… but at least they’re not on the floor anymore.
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